Brothernod
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Sep 29, 2001
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- 340
Ok, This sounds kind of stupid but here is what happened.
I have a sff case. The harddrive is placed left to right under the cd drive parallel to the bottom of the case (i hope that's clear). While my computer was on, not doing anything in particular that I can recall, I lifted up the front of the case (leaving the back on the ground) to look if something I was missing was under it. While lifted I heard the hd make some noise and the computer blue screened (to be honest I don't recall if this was while I had it lifted, as I put it down, or just moments after).
When I restarted the computer it said it couldn't find the boot drive.
I turned off the case and all power to it over night.
This morning when I booted it, it got into windows, but didn't finish loading before it started making noise. Every 10 seconds or so it would make a click sound then spin down, then back up and repeat.
This is a 2 month old 320gb WD sata 3.0 ES drive (with the 5 year warranty).
Is it really possible that I killed my drive by tilting it? This seems ridiculous.
I have a sff case. The harddrive is placed left to right under the cd drive parallel to the bottom of the case (i hope that's clear). While my computer was on, not doing anything in particular that I can recall, I lifted up the front of the case (leaving the back on the ground) to look if something I was missing was under it. While lifted I heard the hd make some noise and the computer blue screened (to be honest I don't recall if this was while I had it lifted, as I put it down, or just moments after).
When I restarted the computer it said it couldn't find the boot drive.
I turned off the case and all power to it over night.
This morning when I booted it, it got into windows, but didn't finish loading before it started making noise. Every 10 seconds or so it would make a click sound then spin down, then back up and repeat.
This is a 2 month old 320gb WD sata 3.0 ES drive (with the 5 year warranty).
Is it really possible that I killed my drive by tilting it? This seems ridiculous.